In a paper published last month, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center introduced lipid nanoparticles — hollow, fatty ...

The aging and failure of cells that occurs when the liver is damaged can spread to other organs, suggests a new study in mice and humans from researchers at UCL, the University of Edinburgh and ...

Your liver is the largest internal organ in your body -- and has a bunch of important jobs to do. Find out how it filters out toxins, helps break down the food you eat, and builds proteins that ...

A new process involving 'sugar coated' cells could help to treat liver disease without needing an organ transplant.

Liver cells have a vital metabolic inflexibility during regeneration to starve dysfunctional cells and keep damage from ...

The study team examined liver tissue biopsies from 34 people with acute severe liver disease. High levels of liver cell senescence early in disease were linked to an increased risk of multi-organ ...

In the study, researchers wanted to know what allowed cells to survive in one place instead of the other. To do this, they analyzed data from MetMap, a project at the Broad Institute, an independent ...

Cancer is said to metastasize when cells from the primary tumor break off and travel via the circulatory system to other parts of the body. "Colorectal cancer metastasizes to the liver because of ...

A protein called PCSK9 determines how pancreatic cancer cells metastasize to different parts of the body. Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs ...

Hepatitis Inflammation of the liver is most often caused by the hepatitis A, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C viruses. [7]“These viruses can cause cell death, and chronic infections can lead to ...

For colorectal cancer cells, the liver is the last stop. “They get caught in the liver’s capillary network,” Moor says. Costanza Borrelli, a doctoral student, and other members of Moor’s team have now ...